Russia is fully united with them. Most of them have ties to KGB-front groups. Even Obama with his mentor Frank Marshal Davis, who was a Communist agent. The No-Nukes, Anti-NATO, anti-American crowd themselves are made up mostly of Cold-War era Communist front groups who advocate that the United States should be passive, inactive, and dissolve NATO, in order to avoid provoking Russia and China. The Ron Paul Foundation is a newer manifestation of these front groups, with many of its members formerly working for Pro-Soviet apologist groups, or they have links to the Eurasianists such as Alexandr Dugin. They're song is always the same, which is, that we should mind our own business.
IOW, what you are saying is nothing more than Russian directed propaganda as organized by the KGB and now FSB.
Never said it was.
You claimed we were "evolving" into Russian style kleptocracy. The effect being that we are not so different from them, or will become them, and, thus, we should not worry about them. But how this is actually logical, you do not explain.
The Russian are ahead of us on the road to kleptocracy but do not have state-run industry benefitting communists
"There are three criteria for state capitalism: substantial state ownership in enterprises; direct government involvement in those enterprises; and an otherwise capitalist system where most enterprises are privately held and operate in market conditions. Russia meets them all. Aslund noted that the state owns two-thirds of the market capitalization in the Russian stock market. However, that ownership is mainly limited to four industries: energy (oil, gas, and electricity), banks, defense industries, and transportation. "
http://www.wilsoncenter.org/publication/the-role-state-corporations-the-russian-economy
Most of the oligarchs themselves are "former" KGB agents and have their monopolies due to Kremlin policy.
Who cares?
Americans do. Obviously, Useful Idiots care about nothing.
We are in a fight for survival as a free country not just the free country that keeps the rest of the world free. Our enemies have already won the foreign soil battle for the most part. Now we going down fast at home. You apparently do not understand the extent of our kleptocracy. It starts with printing money which is given out to favored industries and the 48%. That steals from the productive and the thrifty. From your link
Instead, the actual government strategy is focused on consolidating, maintaining, and expanding political and economic power for the ruling elites through the control of select industries and enterprises.
I don't see much difference between that and our largest banks. Granted they are not run by the CIA or former CIA.
I guess I am a "useful idiot" since I don't care in the least about Ukraine. I may have to put something about that in my tag line.